About

Juan Pablo Suffiotti joined the leading Chilean construction company Echeverría Izquierdo Montajes Industriales (EIMISA) to support the company’s growth strategy by leading an in-house legal department. His task, from the very beginning, was to ‘design policies, practices and methodologies applicable to our legal department so as to shape a commercial practice that is fully in line with a regulatory framework which is becoming day-by -day more sophisticated’, he says. ‘I think that this challenge has positively and widely impacted the company’. At the same time, Suffiotti has contributed to the success of EIMISA immensely with his involvement in a wide spectrum of projects, mainly related to construction, engineering, mining pulp and paper, oil and gas, completing valuable work in the bidding phase, the preparation and negotiation of contracts, lodging legal claims and leading the litigation strategy before arbitration courts. Other achievements in the role focus on leading labour and corporate law matters, as well as the supervision of outsourced legal resources. Suffiotti’s first in-house role was with ABB, where he had the opportunity to put in motion the theoretical knowledge he had previously acquired in private practice. His work at ABB focused on supporting the company’s engineering, construction and infrastructure projects in Chile, as well as providing advice on miscellaneous matters in labour and corporate law.